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Point of Interests in the track with third party app

Timbolot
over 2 years ago

Hi!

I love to insert Point of Interests in my routes to know when there will be a place to sleep / eat and so on...

But it is quite a lot work to insert the POIs into Garmin Connect which I found in Komoot or another route planer.

Is it somehow possible to insert the POIs directly with a third party Route planer and not with Garmin Connect?

Thank you :)

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    The simplest way I find is to use Garmin Mapsource. Once in the "Waypoint" mode, you can insert as many as you want without having to mess about doing them individually as you do in Garmin Connect.

    You can even do a search for a place by name etc in Garmin Mapsource to speed up finding where you need to place it. That you cannot do in Garmin Connect

    Basically, as you build the route, just insert the "POI's" as you come to them which is a slow way and you're only doing one at a time but still far quicker and easier than Garmin Connect.

    Or create your route, then go into "Waypoint" tool and insert them where you want them along the route.

    Or start by using the "Waypoint" tool and put them where you want them and then create the route by linking them up as you build the route and come to them

    Once you have done it, if you have used the second method or you want elevation data, save the route and import it to Garmin Connect and then upload to the Garmin Edge. Only reason I do that is, it builds the "Waypoints" into the route if you use the second method and most importantly you get the elevation data if you need it.

    Another way is to use Garmin Training Centre, if you have a route on your Edge with no "Waypoints" or you want to edit them or add more, just import it into Garmin Training Centre, select the "POI" tool and once again, insert as many as you want in one go and then upload back again into the Garmin Edge. It only takes seconds if you know where they need to be on the route.

    Garmin is going backwards, two good programs, Garmin Mapsource and Garmin Training Centre both replaced by Garmin Connect and Garmin Basecamp, but are inferior and more complicated to use, basically, useless.